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Blue Wish Resurrection Plus Challenge by Mischief Maker 06/21/2008, 11:05am PDT So I'm spending the summer working an internship at a DA's office in what I used to think was a sleepy little northwoods resort town. There's no internet at the place where I'm staying and there's no way in hell I'm getting caught browsing Caltrops on a District Attorney network computer, (Not to point fingers at anyone, Jerry) so I can only post here about once a week when the local library's hours overlap with my free time. Anyway, it's been unseasonably cold for the last two weeks and I have been playing the shit out of my shmup collection and I've come to the conclusion that while Cho Ren Sha is a classic, Warning Forever is great addictive fun, and Kenta Cho's shmups are playable works of art, the Best shmup available for the PC right now, freeware or otherwise, is Blue Wish Resurrection Plus. So I propose a Caltrops Blue Wish Resurrection Plus High Score contest. We'll play for score and post the results to this thread. BWR is heavily based on Ketsui, one of the most highly sought-after arcade shmups by Cave. Fussbett, I saw DoDonPachi in your list of favoite MAME games, Ketsui is by the same company. The scoring system is simple to understand and rewards aggression. There's just 2 things you need to know: 1. When enemies explode, they leave behind blue rubiks-cube-looking point items that automatically fly to your ship, but get smaller and lose value the further they have to fly. To maximize your score you must be right on top of the enemy when they explode. 2. Scattered throughout the levels are hidden treasure chests. If you fly over them and shoot them, they will pour out an infinite supply of fixed value point items so long as they're on screen. The higher up on the screen you uncover them, the more points you get. These are almost always hidden under obvious landscape features and always underneath the wreckage of a large ground turret after you destroy it. The contest will be played with Blue Wish Resurrection Plus 1.11. You can DL it here. If you don't know how to navigate vector, a graphical guide can be found here. We'll start the contest on the easiest game settings, so it won't be hard for beginners to compete: Heaven Difficulty Guard on Wait on Acceleration off One credit only (Continuing resets your score to 0 anyway). (I also suggest changing the item sound to #3, as the default sound is really irritating) Note that with guard on, if your ship is hit, you will automatically cancel all the bullets onscreen at the cost of one bomb, but will take a heavy penalty out of your score. It is always better to bomb manually. Also remember that the yellow dot that appears on your ship when you focus your shots forward represents the size and location of your hitbox. Post your scores in this thread, preferably with a screenshot (hosted on imageshack) to back it up. BWR can be a little touchy with Print Screen and about half the time you only get a black screen. Hitting "Left" at the records section will bring up the "Heaven" difficulty scores so you can try again. Remember, highest score wins, not who got the farthest. As player 2 in Contra 3 said, "Let's be aggressive!" Good Luck, fags!

Blue Wish Resurrection Plus Challenge by Mischief Maker 06/21/2008, 11:05am PDT     4,441,420 by Mischief Maker 06/21/2008, 11:08am PDT         Did I break the rules or something? 13.4 million by FABIO 06/21/2008, 6:12pm PDT             Yeah, I did all the stages and got 28 million. by Worm 06/21/2008, 6:19pm PDT     We can use any ship, right? NT by Worm 06/21/2008, 4:25pm PDT         Also are the slowdowns unavoidable? NT by Worm 06/21/2008, 4:52pm PDT     Re: Blue Wish Resurrection Plus Challenge by FABIO 06/21/2008, 5:33pm PDT     6 498 180 by N 06/21/2008, 10:35pm PDT     Looks like a fun game! by Burrelle's OMM Transcripts 06/22/2008, 12:58am PDT         By having a Mac you've already lost. NT by Fussbett 06/22/2008, 1:01am PDT     22 mil. Worm wins. by FABIO 06/22/2008, 6:44am PDT     *sigh* 30,183,490 by Mischief Maker 06/24/2008, 5:16pm PDT         Working for high scores in manic action games is bad for my mental health NT by Bananadine 06/24/2008, 5:54pm PDT     ROUND 2: The Training Wheels Come Off. by Mischief Maker 06/24/2008, 5:19pm PDT         So...no one by FABIO 07/10/2008, 9:43pm PDT